June 17, 2025
All Saints Catholic School, 630 Lime City Road, Rossford, OH 43460
Why attend | Program Details | Presenters | Sponsors | Sign Up | Breakout Sessions
Teachers, administrators, and guidance counselors:
Ready to take your educational journey to new heights?
Join us for this transformative professional development day designed to empower educators! Our breakout sessions offer practical educator skill improvement workshops for teachers, administrators, counselors, and support staff!
Why Attend?
- Gain Innovative Insights: Discover cutting-edge school improvement workshops to enhance teaching, leadership, and student/parental support.
- Network with Peers: Connect with like-minded professionals and build lasting relationships.
- Discover Local Experts and Resources: Be an active learner in our breakout sessions hosted by NW Ohio educational experts!
- Advance Your Career: Explore opportunities for professional growth!
Featured Presenters
Kristine Malik, PhD
Consultant/Coach Curriculum, Instruction & Educational Technology
Anthony Bronaugh Sr., M.Ed.
Licensed Behavior Analyst (MI); Board Certified Behavior Analyst (OH)
Paula M. Apostolou, Ed.D
Board-certified Coach; Executive & Business Coaching Specialist; Certified 360 Administrator
Program Sponsors
Three sponsorship levels include: Bronze ($200), Silver ($350) and Gold ($500)
Two Ways to Sign Up
1. Group signup using a purchase order
email Kristine@kristinemalikconsulting.com
2. Individual Educator Registration
Program Details
Teach Lead Thrive: Northwest Ohio Educator Professional Development Day
June 17, 2025, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm, at All Saints Catholic School, Rossford, OH
Goal: To provide educators with practical, actionable strategies and hands-on workshops to build educator skills.
Format: 60-minute breakout sessions
Agenda
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am | Check-in and Welcome |
| 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Breakout Sessions |
| 10:45 am – 11:45 am | Breakout Sessions |
| 11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Lunch (Taco Bar by El Tipico) |
| 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm | Breakout Sessions |
| 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Panel Discussion: Lessons in Adaptability: What the Best Educators Do Differently |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Closing Remarks, Certificates of Attendance, and a raffle |
Breakout Session Options
We have many exciting sessions to choose from!
Empowering All Learners Through Universal Design For Learning
For: Teachers, Administrators
By: Dr. Kristine Malik, Consultant & Instructional Coach, KM Educational Consulting
Description: Discover how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can transform your classroom into an inclusive and engaging learning environment. This session will introduce K-12 educators to UDL’s core principles—providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression—and offer practical strategies for applying them to lesson planning and instruction. Participants will leave with actionable tools to meet the diverse needs of their students, fostering equity, accessibility, and meaningful learning outcomes for all.
From Overwhelmed to Recentered
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Dr. Paula Apostolou, Coach & Consultant, RecenterEd Coaching & Consulting
Description: Reclaim your joy in teaching and create more balance in your life using the strategies presented in this workshop. This session is tailored to the unique challenges teachers face, offering self-care strategies that foster wellbeing and revitalization.
The Efficient Educator
For: Teachers
By: Dr. Paula Apostolou, Coach & Consultant, RecenterEd Coaching & Consulting
Description: In this workshop, teachers will learn practical strategies to streamline teaching tasks and reclaim their time. From efficient lesson planning and grading hacks to organizing your workspace and digital files, we will cover tools and techniques that help you work smarter, not harder.
Parents as Partners
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Penny Meeker Parent Coach & Consultant, BeLove Parenting
Description: Engaging parents in their child’s education is essential, yet often challenging. This interactive workshop will help educators explore barriers to effective parent engagement. You will learn how to build trust with parents, reduce barriers, and create partnerships with parents to lead to better outcomes for students.
Bullying Antidote – Teaching Kindness and Other Strategies to Prevent Bullying
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Penny Meeker Parent Coach & Consultant, BeLove Parenting
Description: Bullying harms the bully, the bullied, and the bystander leading to disrupted learning environments and lowered academic performance. This workshop equips educators to be able to identify, prevent, and intervene with all forms of bullying. You will walk away with classroom activities that promote kindness and empathy and how to integrate anti-bullying strategies with your academic outcomes. The workshop will also introduce a school-wide program to address bullying.
Creating a Positive School Culture with Positive Teacher Language
For:
By: Anthony Bronaugh, Sr., M.Ed., BCBA, AB Education & Behavior Consulting
Description: Think about how pleased students are when teachers compliment their work, behavior, or character, and how angry, hurt, or disappointed they often are after teachers’ verbal disapprovals. The goal of this workshop is to show how creating a positive school culture using positive teacher language has a huge impact on how students think, act, and ultimately learn. Come and participate in exercises that include humor to demonstrate the effects that our tone, body language, and selection of words can have on our relationships with students and other educators. I will also address the importance of having a personal mission/vision statement.
Coming Soon
For:
By: Anthony Bronaugh, Sr., M.Ed., BCBA, AB Education & Behavior Consulting
Description: Coming Soon
Making Phonics Fun: Using Multisensory Materials to Expand Student Learning
For: Teachers, Administrators
By: Jenna Stuebs, M.Ed., Reading Specialist, Marysville Schools
Description: This teacher workshop focuses on making phonics instruction engaging and effective by integrating multisensory materials into lessons. Participants will explore a variety of hands-on activities and resources, such as magnetic tiles, engaging manipulatives, and interactive digital tools, that appeal to visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles. Through collaborative activities, teachers will learn how to create dynamic, play-based phonics lessons that encourage students to actively engage with sounds, letters, and word patterns. By tapping into different senses, educators will gain strategies to support diverse learners, foster a love for reading, and enhance retention and fluency in early literacy.
Having the Hard Conversations
For: Administrators
By: Dr. Beth Laux, President & CEO, Quest Cultural Solutions
Description: Honest conversations are the foundation of creative, energized, and successful schools. But fostering that dialogue can be challenging, and school leaders often struggle to find the right tone and approach. Using a model developed at Harvard University, this session helps leaders build vital skills for initiating and facilitating challenging conversations. Using simulations and cutting-edge techniques, participants will learn strategies for giving and receiving feedback, understanding other perspectives, and moderating emotions under pressure. Upon completion, participants will be able to use these techniques in their own work, improving communication, performance, and relationships in the workplace and classroom.
Mindfulness in the Classroom
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Jenn McCullough, Owner & Educator, Integration Yoga with Jenn
Description: Focus, relax, and reset! Experience a variety of mindfulness techniques for your benefit and that of your students. Explore how to effectively integrate simple and adaptable practices into your school day. Join Mindfulness Expert, Jenn McCullough, for this engaging and empowering workshop.
Building Emotional Intelligence through DREAM
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Jennie Geiman, DREAM Coordinator, The Ability Center
Description: During this workshop, educators will learn about The Ability Center’s DREAM Media Program. Teachers will learn practical ways that we incorporate Social Emotional Learning into the literature program. Teachers will learn practical ways they can incorporate SEL strategies using literature into lessons, story times, and meaningful activities. We will discuss identifying SEL themes in texts, create meaningful conversations with students, and designing activities.
AI-AI-OH, NO! Enforcing Ethical AI Use in Today’s Classroom
For: Teachers, Administrators
By: Stehanie Lenkey, Dean of Curriculum, St. Francis de Sales High School
Description: In today’s ever-evolving classroom, it is difficult to decide if a student’s work is their own or was authored by a robot. This session will discuss acceptable AI classroom use and investigate how teachers can detect AI use in student assignments. Some tools discussed may also improve student engagement while enforcing academic integrity. All technology tools discussed are free to educators and are user-friendly.